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  • ‘Iron Nine’ win finale in District 12 softball

    By: Sean Moylan    Somewhere along the line the East Windsor 10-year-old Little League All-Star softball team lost a few players and Amanda Oberg suffered a tournament-ending wrist injury (but she still came to every game and supported her teammates), which caused East Windsor assistant coach Glenn Manochio to start calling the club the "Iron Nine."…

  • Fighting diabetes with fancy footwear

    Flip-flip funds go to good cause By: Jessica Beym    Nine-year-old Ashley Cukier wants to see Cranbury residents walking around in style.    The stylish footwear she’s selling comes with a $12 price tag, but Ashley says the money all goes to a good cause.    For the past few weeks Ashley, a resident of Perrineville Road, has…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Thoughts on Thomas Wolfe

    Changes in the area inspire questions on the definition of "home" By: Hank Kalet "It doesn’t matter where you are, It doesn’t matter where you go If it’s a million miles away or just    a mile up the road Take it in, take it with you when    you go, Who says you can’t go home"…

  • Johnson following brother’s footsteps

    Monty 10s head to regional level By: Justin Feil    For nearly all of the Montgomery 10-year-old all-star baseball team, traveling to New York for the Mid-Atlantic Regional will be a new experience.    Not for Robert Johnson.    In fact, he’s been to plenty of regional games through the years to follow older brother Dale’s Montgomery all-star…

  • Penn Brook celebrates win

    PASDA By: Tim Falls    Scott Orr and many members of the Penn Brook swim team slept late last Friday.    Some slept really late.    For instance, Coach Orr was woken up at 2:55 p.m.    The young coach had a reason to still be asleep in the middle of the afternoon. The Penn Brook swim team had…

  • Kids (and parents) learn at ice-cream social

    Generations come together for learning and ice cream By: Audrey Levine    It could be a scene from the 19th century.    Children churn a mixture of milk, cream, sugar and flavoring, desperately trying to make ice cream to cool off on a hot summer day. Others laugh with their friends as they use sticks to throw…

  • Lessing tapped to fill school board vacancy

    He replaces Dottie Bradley, and will serve on the board until the school election in April 2007. By: Donna Lukiw    A familiar face was appointed to serve on the Manville Board of Education on Tuesday night to fill the seat vacated by Dottie Bradley in June — Ken Lessing.    Mr. Lessing, of Dukes Parkway, served…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Joseph Drevnak, 36, of South Main Street, was charged with disorderly conduct at 12:45 a.m. July 4 while walking on South 17th Avenue.    Police said Mr. Drevnak was ringing a resident’s doorbell at 11:30 p.m. and was also shouting obscenities.    He was transported to headquarters, processed and transported to Somerset County Jail in lieu…

  • Handyman drowns in Elm Ridge client’s pool

    Man was acquaintance of West Shore Drive residents By John Tredrea    A 30-year-old handyman from Ohio drowned Sunday afternoon in the pool at the Hopewell Township residence where he was working for a week, police said.    The man was swimming in the pool, went underwater and did not come up for an unknown reason. The…